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More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
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Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows

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[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 50 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

I’ve stopped watching YouTube shorts because of this, and the removal of the downvote count makes it harder to tell.

[–] flameleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Am I the only one who sticks to subscriptions? It feels like everyone is just consuming whatever the algorithm feeds them

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

And hiding the date the video is from, Youtube is getting worse.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 18 points 13 hours ago

I will never pay for youtube while the downvote count is gone. Absolute anti consumer bullshit.

I do use the add-on to bring them back, but fuck those assholes for doing this.

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 37 points 15 hours ago

0 people liked the removal of the dislike button.

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Why would you ever watch shorts in the first place? First thing I did when they appeared was make a ublock filter to hide them.

[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 4 points 9 hours ago

100% this I do everything I can to ignore shorts

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Considering a lot of the full YouTube videos are full of padding, taking over ten minutes to get to the point, I can understand why the shorts would have appeal.

Problem is one way or another people are being incentivized to target a specific runtime regardless of whether they have the material to fit.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

I just skip those. There's almost always a better one that was easy to find.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 12 hours ago

"Stay tuned for part 2"